Early Saturday morning, police in Citronelle, Alabama, received reports of a person walking around a home. Authorities checked it out and determined nothing was out of the ordinary.

Police believe Dearman returned to the home later that day and killed five people with "firearms and several other weapons."

Authorities described the scene as "gruesome." Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich told WKRG that in her years as a prosecutor she had "never seen a scene where there were five people that were brutally and viciously murdered."